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God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.
A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.
now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.